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SOURCE CITATION IRISH GENEALOGY TIPS CLOUD BACKUPS: MADE EASY & RESOURCES 7 TOP TOOLS WWW.FAMILYTREEMAGAZINE.COM MAY/JUNE 2015 NEW IDEAS TO FIND FAMILY HISTORY ANSWERS! Hidden Clues 8 to ID Old Photos Ways to Connect 10With Distant Cousins Complete Guide to Old Tax Records + Track Down Southern Ancestors After the Civil War + Discover Your Mexican Heritage US $7.99 06 + Find Early New York Immigrants 0 FnL1 04 0120 01 JUYrVyBQdWJsaWNhdGlvbnMsIEluYyAo 02 SW9sYSBkaXZpc2lvbikPR3JlZ29yeSBL 03 cnVlZ2VyAFS1DqMEMTAuNAI4MAExBVVQ Qy1BDDAwOTI4MTAyMDAzNQA= 09281 02003 5 Display until June 22, 2015 0615FT COVER.indd 1 3/18/15 2:44 PM Offer valid until June 31, 2015 0615FT TOC.indd Sec1:4 3/18/15 2:37 PM contents feature articles 54 61 66 20 42 may/june 2015 • volume 16, issue 3 33 26 48 62 20 42 54 20 Hidden in Plain 42 Making Cousin Sight Connections | By Maureen A. Taylor | By Shannon Combs-Bennett Learn how to uncover eight kinds of Distant cousins can swap family sto- surprising new clues in your old fam- ries, share photos and add to your ily photos. family tree. How do you find them? Try these 10 techniques. 26 Gone With the Wind? | By Sunny Jane Morton 48 South-of-the- 54 Citation Elation Border Roots | By Rick Crume Did your Southern ancestors vanish | By David A. Fryxell in the social and economic upheaval Source citations need not be a source that followed the Civil War? We’ll Discover the bounty of records—with of misery. Learn how your genealogy show you the best records to track many coming online—that can help software can make it easy to track them down. you trace your family tree in Mexico. where you fi nd your family facts. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • <familytreemagazine.com> 1 0615FT TOC.indd Sec2:1 3/23/15 1:55 PM contents columns & departments 4 Out on a Limb | By Diane Haddad 8 Genealogy Insider A letter from our editor. | Edited by Diane Haddad What’s new in discovering, preserving 6 Tree Talk and celebrating your family history: Readers respond to » Volunteers make information-rich Family Tree Magazine. obituaries easier to fi nd » Five questions with Ross Allred of GenealogyBank 12 History Matters » A look at death in our ancestors’ | By David A. Fryxell day Shedding light on the history of sunglasses. 17 Family Archivist | By Denise May Levenick How to preserve and display old WORKBOOK diplomas. 61 Now What? 33 Tax Records | By James M. Beidler | By David A. Fryxell Answers to your questions on Irish » Our Genealogy Workbooks series shows you what you need to know roots, early immigrants through New to research your ancestors in essential family history sources. York and Colonial censuses. 63 Research Roadmap Mapping tuberculosis deaths in 1870. 66 The Toolkit 64 Document Detective | Edited by Tyler Moss | By George G. Morgan Genealogy clues in alien registration Reviews and roundups of the latest applications. and greatest family history resources: » Resource Roundup: Cloud geneal- ogy tools 72 Photo Finish » Software Review: RootsMagic 7 Honoring the mothers in readers’ » Tutorial: Save and share photos on family trees. 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